Design Thinking For Dummies [EPUB]
E-Book Overview
• Develop your unique design thinking mindset
• Build a creative toolbox that inspires new ideas
• Examine how design thinking applies across industries
Challenge your creativity methods
Design thinking is not just the property of graphic designers. This approach to creating solutions by thinking from the customer perspective can lead to new and innovative ideas that old methods could not approach.??Design Thinking For Dummies??provides a jump-start to get you and your organization on the path to new creativity. Written by a design thinking thought leader, this book helps you through the design thinking cycle and shows how it can help any industry.
Inside:
• Building creative environments
• Facilitating design thinking workshops
• Implementing your solutions
• Applying design thinking to business
• Tips for transforming your organization
E-Book Information
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Series: For dummies
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Year: 2,020
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Pages: 307
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Language: English
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Topic: 204
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Identifier: 9781119594123,9781119593928,9781119593959
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Creative Thinking
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Toc: Design Thinking For Dummies®
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Table of Contents
Cover
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
What You Don’t Have to Read
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Design Thinking
Chapter 1: Everything You Need to Know About Design Thinking
This Is Design Thinking
Seeing What Design Thinking Can Do
Understanding the Basics of Design Thinking
Start Design Thinking Right Away
Chapter 2: Understanding the Principles of Design Thinking
Focusing on People Early On
More than Traditional Market Research
Finding the Lead User
Actively Involving the Lead User
Developing Empathy
Illustrating Ideas
Failing in Order to Learn
Ensuring Diversity on the Team
Offering Team-Oriented and Creative Workspaces
Making the Process Flexible Yet Focused
Chapter 3: Creating Ideal Conditions
Ensuring a Positive Attitude
Encouraging the Willingness to Change
Arousing Curiosity
Asking For (and Receiving) Support from the Top
Asking For (and Receiving) Creative Freedom
Enabling Fast Decisions in the Design Thinking Process
Tolerating Mistakes During Design Thinking
Find the Competencies You Need for the Task at Hand
Chapter 4: Planning a Design Thinking Project
Defining the Project Goals
Planning Work Packages
Correctly Planning for the Sequence
Correctly Planning for Your Resources
Correctly Planning for the Project Budget
Chapter 5: Supporting Teamwork in the Project
Assembling the Team
Clarifying Communication within the Team
Arranging Workshops
Designing Common Spaces
Part 2: The Problem Phases
Chapter 6: Understanding the Task
Finding the Right Search Area
A Well-Defined Task Is a Task Half-Solved
Identifying Knowledge Gaps